Jesus, In His Own Words

What if Jesus were to tell you in first person about His
time on earth? “You are about to read an account of the life and ministry of
Jesus that combines all four gospels into a single narrative and allows Jesus
himself to tell us the story,” writes veteran Bible translator Robert H. Mounce at the beginning of Jesus, In
His Own Words.

“Although the style is contemporary, the desire is to
clarify the meaning of the original text rather than to impress the reader with
clever phrases.” To that end, Mounce’s more conversational interpretation of
the Gospels allows the reader to “be there” during Christ’s birth and boyhood,
at his baptism by John the Baptist, on the hillside when he spoke about the
kingdom, amidst the miracle workings, and so on.

His approach makes the words fresh to longtime believers and
inviting to those seeking Scripture for the first time. Complementing the
prosaic text, a full index of people, places, verse units, basic themes, and
paragraph headings is also included.